ABSTRACT: Unraveling the composition of Planktonic Eukaryotic and Bacterial Communities in Polluted Port Waters of Mar del Plata-Argentina and its Surrounding Areas
Project description:16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing hypervariable region V4 for determining oily bilge wastewater microbiome composition in 4 distinct vessel samples in Mar del Plata, Argentina
Project description:Comparison of genome-wide gene expression between humans living in areas of high levels of air pollution and less polluted areas. Experiment Overall Design: The study investigated differential gene expression in peripheral blood from 23 children and 12 adults from a region of residence with high levels of air pollution as compared to 24 children and 12 adults from a less-polluted area.Two conditions: living in the polluted or in the less-polluted area. One individual per array, hybridized against a common reference sample
Project description:Comparison of genome-wide gene expression between humans living in areas of high levels of air pollution and less polluted areas. Keywords: Comparison of genome-wide gene expression between different conditions
Project description:The purpose of this microarray experiment was to validate the Del-Mar 14K Chicken Integrated Systems Microarray for different chicken tissues and to determine the utility of this chicken cDNA microarray for other closely related and more distant avian species. The Del-Mar 14 K array was constructed from cDNAs amplified from EST clones sequenced from five normalized chicken cDNA libraries derived from neuroendocrine (5,929), abdominal fat (4,800), liver (2,635), skeletal muscle (2,398), reproductive tract (2,008), 387 long (70mer) oligonucleotides and 72 quality control spots. The array contains 17,770 cDNA clones, where protein matches were found by BlastX analysis for 68% of chicken contigs and 46% of singleton sequences represented on the array. A reference RNA design was used for the hybridization of total RNA from four chicken tissues (liver, abdominal fat, breast muscle and hypothalamus) and the cross-species hybridization (CSH) of total RNA from tissue from birds representing four orders of the Class Aves [Galliformes (chicken, Coturnix quail and domestic turkey), Anseriformes (Peking duck), Falconiformes (American kestrel) and Passeriformes (American tree sparrow)]. A reference RNA pool was made from an equal amount of high-quality total RNA extracted from chicken liver, abdominal fat, breast muscle and hypothalamus. Each of the 43 microarrays was co-hybridized with Cy3-labeled cDNA targets from one of the avian tissue samples and Cy5-labled cDNA targets from the reference chicken RNA pool. Loess-normalized data were used to determine the number of cDNAs expressed in chicken tissues and the number of genes (cDNAs) detectable by cross-hybridization with various avian tissue samples. The Cy5-labeled reference samples were used to determine the coefficient of variation across the 43 microarrays. This study shows a remarkably high level of cross hybridization of Cy3-labeled cDNA targets from a wide range of avian species to the Del-Mar 14K microarray, where 38 to 62% of the cDNA probes on the chicken array (genes) were detectable. Keywords: Transcriptional profiling, Del-Mar 14K Chicken Integrated Systems Microarray validation, multi-tissues, cross-species hybridization, class Aves
Project description:DNA microarray analyses of Ruditapes philippinarum sampled in Venice lagoon areas subjected to different anthropogenic impact. A comparative analysis of gene expression was conducted between Manila clam from lowly-polluted Chioggia and Colmata area and polluted Marghera site.
Project description:Planktonic eukaryote molecular diversity: discrimination of minerotrophic and ombrotrophic peatland pools in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)
Project description:Rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) are a small benthic fish found in North America. This species is sensitive to sewage effluent in the environment, showing the presence of intersex in up to 80% of males in near-field areas in the Grand River, ON. To learn more about the molecular events associated with intersex, we developed a customized oligonucleotide microarray (4x180K) with next generation sequencing (454 Roche) to characterize molecular responses in the gonad. Transcriptomics was performed on both males and females from both a reference site and a polluted site. Males with and without intersex from the polluted site were compared to the control males.
2014-05-22 | GSE57394 | GEO
Project description:planktonic bacterial community in two enclosed sea areas